Greek-Style Lemon Roast Chicken

I found this recipe on the kraft foods website and it turned out so yummy and easy! My husband kept saying it's the best chicken he's ever had. I finished the meal off with some chicken flavored rice (using chicken broth as some of the water) and asparagus. It was a great Sunday meal! I also used 2 lemons instead of just one to give it more of a lemon flavor.

Greek-Style Lemon Roast Chicken

What You Need

1 whole roasting chicken (3-1/2 lb.)

salt and black pepper

1 medium lemon, washed, halved

1/2 cup KRAFT Greek Vinaigrette Dressing

Make It

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towel. Sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper. Place in a 13x9-inch baking dish.

SQUEEZE the juice from lemon and mix with dressing in a small bowl. Place the squeezed lemon halves inside the cavity of chicken. Drizzle dressing mixture over chicken. Insert meat thermometer into thickest part of one of the chicken's thighs.

BAKE 1-1/2 hours or until chicken is cooked through (reaches an internal temperature of 180°F), basting occasionally.

Cowboy Pasta

Saute chopped onion, green pepper, and chili powder (I used taco seasoning). Add equal amounts jarred tomato pasta sauce and chunky mild salsa, drained back or red beans, and frozen corn kernels. Simmer. Toss with wagon wheel pasta (I used heart shaped pasta I had leftover from Valentine's Day) and top with shredded cheddar cheese (I used mozzerella because it is healthier!).

Easy and delicious!
Enjoy!

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Chicken Parmigiana

For Valentine's Day I made Chicken Parmigiana---the easy way.
I made Garlic Cheese Rolls using the Bisquick recipe.
I made heart-shaped noodles---you can use spaghetti, or any type of noodles you want.
I heated up some Spaghetti Sauce.
I then used a Shake-N-Bake packet for Chicken Parmesan and baked that!

Put Noodles down, Chicken, Sauce, and then top with Grated Parmesan!
Voila.....delicious dinner the easy way.

Strawberry & Chicken Salad

This is one of my favorite and easy meals:

1 Rotisserie Chicken from Costco (this is the best deal you can get on a whole chicken)
1 carton of strawberries
2 heads of Romaine lettuce
chopped nuts (I prefer almonds)
Brianna's Poppyseed Dressing

Chop up strawberries, shred chicken, chop up lettuce, chop up nuts and mix all together. Dress with the poppyseed dressing. Delicious!

Valentines and Easter Bunnies

Hearts and Bunnies!


Meringue cookie recipes from my book: Taste of Home Best Loved Cookies & Bars

Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

3 egg whites
1/4 t. cream of tartar
1/4 t. salt
1 C. sugar
3 T.baking cocoa
3 T. miniature semisweet chocolate chips
3 T. finely crushed walnuts, optional

Place egg whites in a large mixing bowl, let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Beat egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt; beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 T. at a time, beating at high speed until stiff peaks form, about 6 minutes. Beat in cocoa. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts if desired. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert #806 round pastry tip. Fill the bag with meringue. Pipe 1-1/2" hearts 2" apart onto lightly greased baking sheets. (If using spray grease smear it evenly with a piece of waxed paper.) Bake at 300 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until firm to the touch. Remove to wire racks to cool. Store in an airtight container.

Meringue Bunnies

2 egg whites
1/8 t. cream of tartar
1/2 C. sugar
1/4 C. pink candy coating disks (Can be purchased in bags at Michaels.)
36 heart-shapped red decorating sprinkles (or cinnamon red hots)

In a mixing bowl beat the egg whites and cream of tartar on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 T. at a time, beating on high until stiff peaks form. Transfer to a pastry or plastic bag; cut a small hole in a corner of the bag.
On parchment-lined (parchment paper found by waxed paper in stores) baking sheets, pipe the meringue into 4-3/4" bunny shapes. Bake at 225 degrees for 1-1/2 hours or until firm. Remove to wire racks. In a microwave, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Place in a pastry or plastic bag. Pipe ears, whiskers and mouths on bunnies. Attach hearts for eyes and nose with melted candy coating.

NOTE: My neighbor makes a yummy popcorn with the candy melts. She just tosses the popcorn with the melted candies and continues to stir as the mixture cools. The result is popcorn in a very pretty pastel shade of your choosing that is not sticky to handle (unless you try to "save" some in your sweaty little palm)and does not pull at tooth fillings! She told me that one package from Michaels will cover two bags of popcorn. I don't know where she buys her bags of popcorn but I am guessing you should pop a couple of large bowls full to melt and use the entire bag of melts (disks).

Sweet and sour chicken from the kitchen of Heather

1/2 c. brown sugar (maybe a little more) 1 green pepper

1/2 c. white vinegar 1 Red pepper

1/2 c. ketchup Some onion chunks

1/2 c. pineapple juice (use all of pineapple in can, I used chunk) pineapple

2 TBSP(give or take) soy sauce

Saute chicken until cooked. Add chopped veggies and cook for a bit. Add all ingredients to make sauce. In separate bowl mix 1 c. water and cornstarch until the thickness you want. Simmer a bit and serve over rice of choice. ****One of my favorite dishes****